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'Why were you looking at that girl?'

DEFINITION: n. A person who wants to monopolize all of someone's love and tries to prevent them from sharing it with others.v. To monopolize someone's love.

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Amoravore

Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: am-or-a-vor

Sentence: Rachel gets jealous just when Doug goes through checkout if the checkout person is female. She is a bit of an amoravore

Etymology: "amora" from the Latin for word "amore" (love); "vore" as in eater.

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Possexion

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: pos sect shun

Sentence: Robert's fear of Virginia's possexion over him started when she insisted on tattooing him in private places with the words, "He's Mine", "Death to Trespassers" and "Private Property", naturally written on his privates.

Etymology: Possession (being controlled by passion) & Sex (all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses)

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Occupassion

Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: OCCUpy+PASSION

Sentence: Almost leech-like, she was consumed with being my occupassion, even closely following my eyes trying to see what or who I was looking at, besides her.

Etymology: OCCUpy+PASSION

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Attentioneer

Created by: javex

Pronunciation: Uh-ten-shun-eer

Sentence: Look, I'd love to stay and talk with you, but my attentioneer of a wife is running over here, and she doesn't really look too happy...

Etymology:

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Bleachy keen, Javex! - Nosila, 2009-11-03: 23:44:00

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Jealeash

Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: jell-leish

Sentence: I tend to be a very jealeash girlfriend.

Etymology: jealous (jealous girlfriend) + leash (likes to keep her man on a short leash)

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Intimacop

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: intəməkäp

Sentence: Sandy wants it all, every little bit of Clyde*s attention and affection. She keeps him on a very short leash. She is a regular intimacop, watching everything he does and controlling everyone he sees, what he ates, even when he was allowed to go to the bathroom. Life can be very busy with a puppy in the house.

Etymology: intimacy (close familiarity or friendship; closeness) + cop (a police officer)

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Lovaritia

Created by: jjlmfay

Pronunciation: Low-wah-ree-tia

Sentence: His paranoia was growing with the passing of each day apart. He had become a lovaritia, consumed with control and love turned something sickly. Her affection wasn't enough, he had to have all of her.

Etymology: love (deep affection for someone) + avaritia (Latin for greed)

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Cherholder

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: Cher-hol-der

Sentence: David thinks he can hold on to Cher as his girlfriend. His plan is to spend every minute with her so she can't get interested in any men.

Etymology: Cher, david's girl/ hold, to hang on/shareholder, people that hold stock in, or part ownership in something.

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Insecuramorata

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Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: /in/seh/kyoor/a/mah/rah/ta

Sentence: Gina smiled as she passed by the couple walking towards her which earned the poor guy that grinned back at her a thump on the forehead by his insecuramorata.

Etymology: in·se·cure = subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person+ Inamorata comes from Italian innamorata, feminine of innamorato, from the past participle of innamorare, "to inspire with love," from in- (from Latin) + amore, "love" (from Latin amor, from amare, "to love"). A man with whom one is in love is an inamorato.

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COMMENTS:

interesting - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-24: 16:11:00

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Jealouse

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: JEH louse

Sentence: Lydia couldn't take it anymore. If she answered her cellphone, Mark would be right there, obviously listening to her side of the conversation. If she didn't take the call, he would "casually" say, "Hmmm... I wonder who was calling?" He would pretend to be doing tasks nearby whenever she was on e-mail, but she knew he was really trying to read over her shoulder. For a while she had thought his possessiveness was sweet, but now she realized he was just a jealouse. It was the same age-old story, except now with technology added.

Etymology: jealous + louse

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COMMENTS:

perfect word! - Nosila, 2009-11-03: 12:10:00

I agree! - splendiction, 2009-11-03: 21:14:00

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-17: 04:50:00
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-18: 02:28:00
See the top 4 words of the day at Why were you looking at that girl? ~ James

- 2008-04-20: 01:04:00
good stuffing

- 2008-04-20: 01:08:00
hairy!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-06-24: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-11-03: 00:06:00
Today's definition was suggested by vonnegut. Thank you vonnegut. ~ James

lumina - 2009-11-04: 17:09:00
Thanks for the welcome back Nos. Totally forgot about this fun place. Time to sharpen my verbotomizing skills again. Helloooo methrohumanx!